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 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.
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The pie chart visualizes the survey's output of the main reason behind cellphone usage by adolescents from 2016 to 2019.
Overall
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, 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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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
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in 2016 are because of social networks which dominated up to 50% and
email
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which started off with 25%.
However
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, those numbers were declining in 2017 which reduced both social media and
email
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percentages to 48% and 24% respectively. Whilst
email
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continues
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to drop its number by 5% by the end of the period, social media
have
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gradually increased to 56% in the same year.
On the other hand
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, the remaining cell
phone
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usage purposes in 2016 were digital camera and
phone
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calls with 15% and 10% respectively.
Phone
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calls percentage increased by 3% in 2017 before gradually decreasing to 5% during 2019.
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, the amount of adolescent who uses their cell
phone
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for camera purposes remained steady during 2017 before experiencing a progressive change of 5% within the next two years.
This
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upward tendency eventually made digital cameras replace
email
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as the second-highest main purpose of young people's
phone
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use.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words phone, email with synonyms.
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