Dating habits have totally changed in the past few years.

What happened to calling, not using your phone while on a date, actually having a plan for the date and committing instead of defining the relationship as "talking?"

Calling and hanging out. Why don't people call each other? Texting throughout the day gets old, especially when you see each other at night. Calling once a day, maybe even once every two days is sufficient to catch up and see how everything is going. Same goes for hanging out. Hanging out every couple of days is a good idea to help avoid the texts along the lines of, “So, what are you doing now?” and replies like, “Oh that sounds fun.” Skyping is also a good alternative to texting or calling. You can see each other’s faces and hang out without constantly being around each other. This is also a good idea for people with really busy schedules.

Stop the “"talking” madness. What is “talking”? What defines when two people are “talking”? How many of you have ever described your relationship to somebody else as, “I don’t really know what we are... We are kind of talking and we text all the time, but I don’t know how to describe us?” STOP. Define your relationship in a different way or ask your significant other where he or she thinks the relationship is. If you like how your relationship is going and you want to keep it that way or if you want to be official, then go for it! Don’t just settle with defining it as “talking.” Stop with the uncertainty. Just be friends or date. I am not saying to rush into all of your future relationships and be that annoying couple on Facebook and Instagram who constantly post a million pictures together. But don’t be the couple that takes forever to make any type of commitment and is just “talking” for what feels like years.

No Facebook, Twitter or Instagram while together. Nothing is more annoying than when you are trying to talk to someone at the dinner table and they are on their phone. During a date, especially on a first date, if you are on your phone the whole time, you might as well forget getting a second date. Even if you’re on your 100th date, put the phone away. Surely you can ignore your group messages and social media outlets for a few hours.

Have something planned. When you go on your date, actually have something planned. Avoid the opener of “So, what do you want to do?” and the reply of, “I don’t care, you pick.” Whether it is a dinner reservation, a movie you've picked out or a date to HeyDay, have something planned.

When you are on your next date, think about these rules: No getting on your phone during the date, have something planned, call instead of texting after the date and, finally, stop defining the relationship as “talking.”