The Empty Promise of Relationship Apps

When our hearts feel unfulfilled, tech is happy to make money off a solution

Jake Pitre
OneZero
Published in
5 min readDec 5, 2019

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LLong-distance relationships can be hard on a yearning heart. Sandra, a 23-year-old student from the Netherlands, has been seeing her boyfriend Jakob for a year and a half, but he’s nearly 1,000 miles away, working as a medical student. So, only a month into their…

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Jake Pitre
OneZero

A very sensitive piece of horse flesh. Writer for Polygon, Hazlitt, etc. Grad student.