Okay, so there is MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Reddit, Digg, blah buh blah buh blah… All of these type of sites have certain things in common, and the most notable one is simple: People spends hours on these sites talking to people, sending messages, changing their profiles, adding photos, looking for hotties, and everything else in between. The other thing that these users have in common is the fact that they sit on their ass while they do all of this “work”, therefore making their life a waste.

Instead of putting on about 10 lbs of worthlessness, instead of spending thirty minutes taking pictures of yourself with stupid expressions or revealing clothes on, instead of stalking that cute girl that sits behind you in class, instead of blogging about how lonely you are…(and it goes on like this), go to MEETin.org and find people that want to socialize outside.

This is a free, clever site dedicated to helping the bulk of America (pun intended) get outdoors and see people in real life. Although they do not have a section for Los Angeles, which is entirely confusing to me, they do have hundreds of major cities and locations to meet real people to go to bars, go hiking, bike riding, surfing, or whatever else people that leave their house may possibly do with other people. They even have groups in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and will probably expand as the site becomes more popular.

If your lucky enough to live in one of the areas that this site caters to, go ahead and try it out. There are plenty of events that people have gone too, and most are fairly safe and comfortable settings. As you can see here, thousands of people have already participated, and it looks like all the events are pretty fun.

As if there weren’t enough social networks already, here’s another to keep 2007 going. Meosphere allows people to brag document where they’ve been, what they’ve done and what they want to do next. The free service uses Google Maps technology to geographically track people’s experiences.

The idea is to share the coolest places in the world, be it some cave in Sumatra or the new Pink Berry in West Hollywood. Those places and activities are organized into lists which are essentially user created categories. Of course, it wouldn’t be a social network if you didn’t have user profiles, pictures, blogging and comments.

So if you haven’t yet developed a distaste for social networks, give Meosphere a try. It was kind of cool to see what people were saying about Pink’s Hot Dog in Los Angeles. My two cents? I feel gypped for standing in a 20 minute line. Now I can say “been there, done that”.