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 main purpose of teens in an African region to use gadgets from 2016 to 2019.

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, it can be seen that social networks were dominant across the reasons,

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phone calls consistently used the lowest. Digital

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replaced

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's rank

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, social media

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by 50% of teenagers, and has decreased to 48% in 2017. One year later, the number of users increased slightly by about 3%.

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, it continuously rose and became the highest level at 56% in 2019. During

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,

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has always decreased. It started with 25% of people using

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, but keep dropped from 2017 to 2019, with 24%, 20%, and 19%, respectively.

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climbed marginally. It remained steady at 15% in 2016 and 2017,

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grew to 18% and into second place in 2019, taking over

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position. The

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one was phone calls which had the lowest rates throughout the

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. In two years, between 2016 and 2018, the percentage of phone users was only around 10% to 13%.

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, it has declined drastically to 5% in the

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