How did the invention of the telephone effect american society the most?

The invention telephone hanged life today drastically. First, with the invention, people can communiate faster and it made communication much easier. instead od writing a letter which often takes awhile to deliver, you could recieve and communicate with someone much faster and easier than writing a letter.

 The telephone had a large impact, it made business more efficient and it saved money from having to travel back and forth from far places, and it made transactions able to occur more quickly. It led to instant communications around the world and even led to the Internet. The telephone also opened up many new job opportunities by starting new companies and building and making more telephones for the rest of the country and world.
 Thomas Edison said it "annihilated time and space and brought the human family in closer touch."