A Quick Refresher on Basic Phone Etiquette

Quarantined at home, we’ve rediscovered what phones are really for

Tim Harper
Forge
Published in
6 min readMar 25, 2020

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A grandmother smiles and laughs as she talks on the phone.
Photo: Akshar Dave/Unsplash

EEver since Alexander Graham Bell beat the pack of competing inventors to the big payday in 1876, the telephone has been changing the way humans communicate. For the better part of a century, the device was the center of the American household, a clunky contraption nailed to the…

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