Mark Zuckerberg has some life advice for any youngsters tempted to marry into money.

Don't date the nerd, BE the nerd.

The Facebook co-founder posted this week about setting goals for 2016, prompting one fan to reveal she'd effectively been telling her granddaughters to scour their yearbooks for the kid voted ‘most likely to become an internet billionaire’, writing, “I keep telling my grand daughters to Date the nerd in school, he may turn out to be a Mark Zuckerberg! [sic]”

But Zuckerberg, 31, wasn't having any of it, replying: “Even better would be to encourage them to *be* the nerd in their school so they can be the next successful inventor!”

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has some life advice for girls looking to find the next internet billionaire