Renowned American screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is in the process of researching social networking site Facebook in a bid to make a movie about its origin.

Sorkin, who famously created and wrote scripts for television drama series 'The West Wing', recently opened his own Facebook account, on which he subsequently revealed his intention of making a film about the website.

"I understand that there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name — which I find more flattering than creepy — but that's just me. I don't know how I can prove that, but feel free to test me," wrote Sorkin upon his introduction to the site.

The 47-year old writer then went on to ask his fellow Facebook users for any related stories that might be of interest to him, and also jokingly referred to the irony of his own technical incompetence.

"I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years)," Sorkin wrote.

The story of the beginning of Facebook is also the story of a young computer programming Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg, who started Facebook together with three of his friends — computer science major Andrew McCollum and roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

The site was originally only used by students of Harvard, but kept on expanding up to the point where it now has more than 100 million users across the world. Currently the CEO for Facebook, Zuckerberg has, needless to say, received many lucrative offers for his ingenious little goldmine, but insists on keeping it an independent endeavour.

The film will apparently be produced by Academy Award winning producer Scott Rudin, who produced well-known films the likes of 'The Addams Family', 'The Truman Show', 'Sleepy Hollow', 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'No Country for Old Men'.