Mark Zuckerberg's brilliant dating advice for young women is to be the nerd they want to date

A matchmaking grandmother tried to praise the Facebook CEO by writing in a comment on his Facebook page that she always tells her granddaughters to "date the nerd" because he may just become the next Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg, who has been responding to many comments recently while on paternity leave, was quick to try (politely) changing the way she thinks about her granddaughters' future prospects.

"Even better would be to encourage them to *be* the nerd in their school," he wrote, "so they can be the next successful inventor."

The grandmother was marvelled at the incredible attention to the post about 20,000 Likes and counting on Zuckerberg's response — before noting that she does in fact "encourage" her grandchildren "to do well," adding that "I've done everything in my life myself."

This conversation came in response to Zuckerberg's post about the big challenge he's setting for himself in 2016 which is building an artificial intelligence system that can run his home.