Band 8+: 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 give information on the reasoning behind the usage of cell phones by adolescents in the African country between 2016 and 2019.

Overall, while social media represented the vast majority of the purposes for the usage of phones, phone calls accounted for the smallest proportion for all four years.

It is clearly seen that the usage of mobile phones for social networking sites made up half in 2016, which was a large proportion for all three years. Following this, there was a drop by 2 percent, from 50% to 48%, after which the figure increased in the following years. Email usage decreased throughout the four years, from one out of four percent in 2016 to just under a fifth percent.

According to the data given, usage for phone calls represented a small segment of reasons. It started at one in ten percent in 2016 and peaked at 13% in 2017. Next, the figure decreased to a mere five percent in the final year. On the contrary, the proportion of digital camera remained stable until 2017, and after that, it rose to one in five percent in the final year.