Aaron Sorkin, the creator of “The West Wing,” has signed to write a movie based on the creation of the social-networking site Facebook. David Fincher (”Fight Club,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) is in talks to direct it.

Although there are very few good movies about computers–there’s “2001″ and, uh, that’s it–this one could be interesting. Facebook started in a Harvard dorm in 2003, when a sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the university’s computers to collect photos of girls and assemble a “Hot or Not?” sort of page.  His “Facemash” eventually morphed into Facebook, a social site for Harvard students, then all Ivy Leaguers, then university and high school students across the country. Now it’s the biggest social networking site on the planet, with more than 200 million users. One of the newest ones is Sorkin, who admits on his Facebook page that his long-dead grandmother knows more about technology than he does.

Sorkin is using his page to solicit suggestions. But since I don’t trust Facebook with sensitive information (and neither should you), I will use this space to make a plea and hope that it reaches him. No story about Facebook is complete without an investigation of who financed it and how the company is using the information it gathers about its users.

The following is not an urban legend: Facebook obtained $12 million in seed money from a “certain intelligence agency” that would like to stay informed about the political discontent of the rabble.  You can look it up. Except, don’t use Google, because…Oh, never mind.