The chart shows the results of surveys in one African country asking teenagers the main reasons for using their phones between 2016 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts illustrate the four major reasons for mobile

phone

usage among African teenagers that took place between 2016 and 2019. At first glance, it is clearly evident that social

networks

have always increased over the 4-year period.

While

phone

calls can be seen to decline considerably. In 2016, 50

percent

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of social

networks

stood up as the highest reason for African teenagers to use their mobile phones.

Although

there was a slight dip in 2017 by 2%, the proportion of social

networks

managed to keep growing until 2019, recorded at 56%.

In addition

,

this

also

served the social

networks

, which remained the biggest proportion compared to the other three reasons.

Phone

calls,

on the other hand

,

initially

secured the lowest position as the reason for mobile

phone

usage, registered at 10%.

Although

there was an increase

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of

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3% in 2017, the trend has continued to fall dramatically in the subsequent 2 years,

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at 5% in 2019.

Moreover

,

this

also

marked the

phone

calls as having the consistency to become the smallest proportion of the other three reasons.