Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is currently working on a project about the founders of social networking site Facebook and he has begun his research by creating his own Facebook account.

It may sound like a piece of cake to those used to accessing the Internet on a daily basis for a variety of uses but Aaron Sorkin confesses that there is much he does not know about Facebook.

Lucky for him his researcher, Ian Reichbach, started the page for him, “because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she’s been dead for 33 years,” the screenwriter joked.

“I honestly don’t know how this works, which is why I’m here,” Sorkin wrote on his page, inviting anyone interested to offer their comments or to ask their questions should they doubt his true identity.

As to other accounts on Facebook from people claiming to be him, the Hollywood screenwriter said he found it “flattering more than creepy.”

Sorkin is writing the film for Sony and producer Scott Rudin and says he has “a fairly specific idea of what the first 15 pages of the screenplay will be and no idea what will happen on pages 16 thru 130.”

Sorkin is the creator of political drama “The West Wing,” starring Martin Sheen as the president of the United States. He also created “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and is the screenwriter of “Charlie Wilson’s War,” starring Tom Hanks.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004 while he was studying at Harvard University. The project was initially aimed for use by Harvard students and membership was gradually expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League and then to all university students, high school students and then people from all over the world.