Yesterday, Facebook's Dave Recordon commented that he just finished a marathon session of The West Wing , a great show about the inner-workings of a fictional White House that ended its run on NBC in 2006. I agreed with Recordon, it was a great show. You know who else agreed? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg . So why is this interesting? Well, the creator of The West Wing was Aaron Sorkin. He was also the executive producer and primary writer through the first four seasons. If you've heard Sorkin's name in the tech sphere recently, it's because he's also the writer of the new Facebook movie , The Social Network , currently filming under the direction of David Fincher.