Last week Google went live with it’s latest addition to the social media arena: Google Buzz. In short, Buzz is a miro-blogging system much like Twitter and the news feed in Facebook, that allows the user to post text, links and images for their friends (and the public) to read, see and comment. You an also connect your other social medias to Buzz and have your posts from these systems displayed in your Buzz stream.

Now, I’ve mentioned this on several other occasions, but some things can’t be said often enough: What about the comment streams? When I post something on my Twitter it is copied to my Facebook profile and my Buzz stream, and people can comment and reply to my posts on the respective sites. But these comments aren’t linked to the other sites. And that is beginning to annoy me.

A conversation used to be carried out at one place at one time. With Internet relay chat (IRC) and instant messaging (IM) the “one place”-part was whisked out, and with email, SMS, forums and online social media the “one time”-part is also gone. What we are seeing now are single conversations being fragmented and split to different medias while they really would benefit from being carried out as one. And in order to have this done properly, all replies and comments spawned from the same post have to be duplicated to all the other participating streams.

Is this possible? Sure it is! Like everything else in the field of informatics, there are at least three ways to accomplish this. Are we going to see at least five attempts to solve it? Probably. And hopefully one will prevail as the best solution. I am even tempted to have a go at a solution my self, but I’d like to know if anyone else shares my frustration.

If you have anything to say in this matter, please to so at any of the social medias where I am currently signed in: Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, and of course, right here at my very own blog!