Have couples' apps gotten weird?

情侣应用是不是变得有些奇怪了?

Round Table China

社会与文化

2025-03-14

11 分钟
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Couples' apps offer valuable features such as love diaries, shared savings, and important date reminders. But must shared toilet time define modern intimacy? Seriously. Do these apps genuinely help long-distance lovers maintain their connection, or are they merely transforming relationships into a series of obligatory check-ins? On the show: Heyang, Steve Hatherly & Yushan
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  • Huh Young.

  • I'm joined by Steve Hatherley and Yu Chen in the studio.

  • Coming up, couples apps offer love diaries,

  • joint savings and sometimes even toilet time together and before their what?

  • Yes, including that.

  • But are they helping long distance lovers stay close

  • or just turning relationships into a series of mandatory check ins?

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  • Ah, modern romance.

  • Gone are the days of love letters and mixtapes.

  • Now we have couples apps that let you video chat,

  • track anniversaries, listen to the same song at the same time,

  • and even manage a shared budget when you're maybe living in different cities

  • or different apartments.