Aaron Sorkin’s Dissecting Facebook

Aaron Sorkin, creator of Sports Night, The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, has joined the social networking site Facebook, and it’s not so he can collect thousands of friends, but rather so he can study it.

Sorkin revealed, through the site, that he’s writing a new film about how the popluar social networking site was invented. Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men) is producing the film for Sony Pictures.

The trades tell us that the film will focus on the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation on the Harvard campus by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg to a juggernaut with more than 60 million members. The company was reportedly valued at $16 billion last year when Microsoft outbid Google to invest $240 million for a 1.6% stake in the company.

Along with the events that created the phenomenon, the film will cover how these unimaginable overnight riches changed the lives of Zuckerberg and his Facebook cohorts.

Head on over here to check out Sorkin’s Facebook group.