Remember that scene in “The Princess Diaries” when Mia’s grandmother, Clarisse Renaldi, the queen of Genovia, gives her etiquette lessons?These included things like not slouching at the dinner table, walking with your head high and your shoulders back, crossing your legs at the ankles instead of the knees, and not waving frantically with your hand.“[But] they’re not a great way to go deep or get to know the person’s personality.” Chris Donahue, a 28-year-old writer from Brooklyn, believes men should still foot the bill, at least on the first date.“It opens up a kind of flirty dialogue of like, ‘You can pay for the next date,’ ” he says.“If you think you know the rules, some new app will come along and reinvent the rule book.” Here’s how to play the game now.

And members of our generation actually follow and endorse them, although they'll never admit it. We are the generation of laissez-faire souls who thrive off meaningless sex with good-looking people.I'm talking about those unspoken rules our generation places around dating.Wouldn’t it be a shame if a promising relationship ended over bad texting etiquette?Dating expert and CEO of Dating with Dignity, Marni Battista, shares some basic tips for cell phone use while dating — simple, but so important!