The given charts depict survey results regarding the use of phones among teenagers in one African country between 2016 and 2019.
Overall, the use of social media had been dominant for 4 consecutive years, and became the most fundamental use in 2019. However, using phones for calling received much less attention throughout the period.
In 2016, one-half of the time African teens used their phones was for social media platforms. While social media was always considered most utilized, any forms of communication, such as emails or phone calls, received a meager amount of use, respectively 15% and 10%. This proportion changed drastically after 3 years, when emails rose to 20% of spare time among African adolescents. The use of phone calls in 2019 dropped to only 5%, whilst time spent for social media accelerated by 6%. For a digital camera, the inclination of use inaugurated at 25%, then dropped to 19%.
In 2017 and 2018, there were slight changes to the purpose of using phones in distinct categories. Email communication gradually shrank its statistic by 4%, as it was the same with phone calls. For social media and digital camera use, there was a 3% rise in data between the 2 categories, respectively, from 48% to 51%, and from 15% to 18%.