Soon, when he finally gets Spotify, he’ll be able to share playlists with me, and I’ll be able to spam him with Beyoncé songs. If I want know what the road trip he went on yesterday was like, I can stalk his Instagram. If I want to know what articles he is reading, I can look at his Twitter. If I want to see his face, we can use Skype or Google Hangout or FaceTime. I see a food truck we love by my apartment, I Snapchat it to him. When something good or bad happens at work, I can notify him immediately by texting him. I can call my boyfriend every day without having to worry about massive phone bills. Of course there are ways technology has made long distance relationships much more manageable. But after many months of anxiously glancing at my phone during work or dinners with friends to see if boyfriend was texting me, I realized that the devices and apps that were supposed to bring us closer together were actually driving us apart. Before he moved, we had joked that those iPhone commercials showing couples sharing intimate moments as they FaceTime from opposite ends of the world would be our lives. In an increasingly global job market, more relationships have to go the distance, but, friends assured me, it was easier than ever thanks to technology. So I couldn’t help but cry as I watched the movie while sitting next to my boyfriend who lives 2500 miles away from me. From the little miscommunications that come from not being able to see your partner’s face to struggling to overcome the impossibility of physical intimacy to the panic that strikes when a call goes unanswered - they were all familiar problems.
Though many have complained that they found it hard to empathize with the human-operating system relationship the movie depicts, I found the film all too real because it embodied the worst parts of a long distance relationship.
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