1. Constant Communication or Not

Constant communication is great; you always know where your friends, significant other (S.O.), or potential S.O. are, but who actually communicates constantly? This idea that "if he’s not texting me, I’m not worth his time", is an easy one to believe, but let’s be honest -- you can’t hold a conversation for 10 hours a day every day. The idea that constantly texting someone is how you show that you care is a toxic everyday lie.

2. Texting While Together

The ability to be able to respond to a message quickly and in a timely manner is great for jobs, but not so great when you’re on a date with someone and they have to respond to every text that comes in. Yeah, it might be an emergency, but is it usually? No.

3.Texting Other People

How great is it to be able to talk to other people without leaving a trace of evidence behind? The thing with texting is that you can text as many people as you want and your S.O. or potential S.O. never has to know. This makes it incredibly difficult to have trust in genuine people when you think you’re the only one and suddenly you bump into three girls in the bar who have all heard the same things you have.

4. The, "you up?" Text

Is this self-explanatory? The dreaded booty call text from the guy who you thought you were hitting it off with. Can we please make away with this? By 12 a.m. most people are probably already in bed with their moisturizer on and in their PJ’s. If you wanna bang, please have the decency to send a text before 10:30.

5. The Vagueness

Let’s face it, texting is vague. We get out wires crossed and we say things that we can’t really explain fully, even if we know the other person fully. It makes it very hard to get to know someone when you’re not actually having clear and concise communication. Texting is great, but it is limited.

6. Romance is Emojis

Say goodbye to the days of love letters and pebbles thrown at your window and say hello to emoticons. They’re cute, but also incompatible between android and iPhone’s apparently. These little smiley faces could easily be confused and misinterpreted.

7. Ghosting Away

You could be talking to someone for months, maybe even years and then suddenly they fall of the face of the planet. The great thing about texting is, you don’t have to reply, but you also don’t have to send the message in the first place. Most people opt for the easy way out of ghosting people out, which simply just means ignoring someone until both of you forget it even happened. Let’s be honest, this method leaves a pretty bad feeling to the receivers. Not knowing if it was them or if the other person met someone else makes it very hard to trust this dating game again.