Part of my stress from the past day has been Social Media. There are way too many platforms to mange both personal and business accounts on. The best option would be for people to move across to these decentralized platforms that allow you to use whatever platform you wish to and post across the whole internet at the same time. Less having to check 20 messaging services as well as 30 social medias.
The way I will try to solve this for myself is by removing myself from some of these social platforms, doing last posts where I will say that if they wish to contact me, then there are my select few ways to talk;
iMessage (for Apple Users)
WhatsApp (for Android Users / Mixed Group Chats)
Email (For Business & Personal use)
These are the few that I have chosen, with them being in the order of preferred method top to bottom. This doesn't mean I won't check my DMs on Facebook, Instagram or any other Social Media. It just means that I will rather turn off notifications for them and just make it a task to check them once a week or will just message every person with a preferred way to message each time they message me.
There is probably a way to automate telling people to message me on other platforms instead of the on the one they are currently on, but I am unsure how that would be automated without paying for a service and I'd rather not do that. The next best thing might be, by creating some sort of script that I can use over and over when people message, just replacing a few factors to make it unique for each user.
The only problems I see with this plan are a few things;
People don't want to use the platform you want to use, they want to use the platform they want to use.
WhatsApp is still owned by a data collecting yours via the company of META. So might need to move even further away and use Signal or something.
Moving people to platforms they really don't use / never have used before is very hard to sell.
One day, maybe this can all become easier to move away from the Social Media sections of the internet and hopefully only use a few ways to talk to people instead of 20+.