Don't Marry A Nerd; Be One- Zuckerberg Advise

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has advised women not to date nerds if they want to be successful - but to be nerds.

This advise  comes after a grandmother posted on Facebook that she tells her granddaughters to "date the nerd in school" because he may turn into the next billionaire.

In a response to a New Year post from the tech tycoon, Darlene Hackemer Loretto commented: "I keep telling my grand daughters to Date the nerd in school, he may turn out to be a Mark Zuckerberg!"

In his response, Zuckerberg , "even better would be to encourage them to be the nerd in their school so they can be the next successful inventor," he advised.

The Facebook chief executive recently celebrated the birth of his daughter Max with his wife Priscilla Chan.