- Social Triggers are only trigger. It is not reward.
Perhaps we must have a strong feeling that
- To avoid becoming addicted
- Related Social Triggers and Approval Dependence.
We tend to feel “happy” when we get positive mentions on Twitter, but we should feel joy only at this point, when the mentions cause us to reread our past writings and notice new things that we did not notice when we wrote them. This means that we need to train ourselves to control our spontaneous emotions, which could be something like anger management or vipassana meditation, or something like that.
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