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 chart visualizes the survey's output of the main reason behind cellphone usage by adolescents from 2016 to 2019.

Overall

, it is clearly visible majority of young people use their mobile phones

because of

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for

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social network purposes. The number of teenagers who claim to

using

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use

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their phones mainly because of social networks has increased throughout the given period, whilst most of the other reasons have fallen off. The two biggest reasons why teenager used their cell

phone

in 2016 are because of social networks which dominated up to 50% and

email

which started off with 25%.

However

, those numbers were declining in 2017 which reduced both social media and

email

percentages to 48% and 24% respectively. Whilst

email

continues

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to drop its number by 5% by the end of the period, social media

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gradually increased to 56% in the same year.

On the other hand

, the remaining cell

phone

usage purposes in 2016 were digital camera and

phone

calls with 15% and 10% respectively.

Phone

calls percentage increased by 3% in 2017 before gradually decreasing to 5% during 2019.

In contrast

, the amount of adolescent who uses their cell

phone

for camera purposes remained steady during 2017 before experiencing a progressive change of 5% within the next two years.

This

upward tendency eventually made digital cameras replace

email

as the second-highest main purpose of young people's

phone

use.