Hate Facebook? MySpace seems old hat now? Want something that’s easy to use and gives you instant message capability too?

Here are three you can try out. You’ve most likely never heard of these, but hey, that’s half the fun because being early in sites like these means you’ll probably get more e-popular.

All three of these sites have the ability to connect IM in Meebo, so you can centralize them all in one spot.

You will notice all these sites operate similar to each other, but each have a distinct "personality" of sorts.

Zorpia – www.zorpia.com

A social network that concentrates on more of an international presence compared to just USA-only.

dotblu – www.dotblu.com

The shtick with this site is "social gaming". Games, games and more games. No, not the hardcore MMORPG and FPS style, more like Yahoo! Games used to be back in the day, except this has a social twist to it. You might like this one a lot; it has a very addicting quality to it.

Flixster – www.flixster.com

This is exactly what you think it is, a social network for movie buffs of all types. Rate and share movie reviews, get social with it, etc. You get the picture (bad pun intended).

Why bother with any of these?

A problem that presents itself with social networking as a whole is that it’s too generalized. Yes, there is the ability to create groups in these networks, but most of them have hidden agendas (i.e. spammy).

Social networks with a specific purpose do hold value. If you’re overwhelmed by the "too much stuff" factor of the bigger sites, these smaller sites might be what you were looking for.

What do you think?

Are any of these networks good or are they total crap?

Let us know in the comments.