PriMera Scientific Engineering (ISSN: 2834-2550)

Research Article

Volume 9 Issue 1

Attention Patterns in Youtube and TikTok Internet Social Networks

Mohamed Bobo Diallo*, N’golo Konate, Fatoumata Rosalie Tokpa, Dethie Dione, Issagha Bah, Nada Sbihi, Moustapha Diaby and Armel Fabrice Evrard Yode

June 30, 2026

DOI : 10.56831/PSEN-09-278

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Abstract

There is a concern whether social networks are the beast as envisioned by the eschatologist Jean, greedy of social interactions in practical terms rather than simply connecting better humans in the real world. This paper gives insights on the improbability that Internet social networks eased the emergence of a new bright connected planet empowering technology to brighten every horizon of the planet, on the shoulders of two decades of practicing social networks from Hi5 to TikTok through Facebook/Instagram/Threads via Orkut. Our results reveal that the interactions facilitated by these social networks are very real. However, these social networks sometimes generate an overload of information seriously affecting the analysis and attention capacity of users of various digital literacies. This is particularly the case of Youtube, and worse TikTok, on which we rely to illustrate this fact by gathering a set of data from the activity of @hanifrabbanihaqqani account private datasets, broadcasting since 2023g, 1445h as the contemporary imam of the rawdah, streaming from french maturity without precedent-ness recorded.

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