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.

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.