Mark Zuckerberg had a great piece of advice for a grandmother about her granddaughter dating nerds

Rob Price

Jan 4, 2016, 17:40 IST

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the crowd gathered during his keynote address at Facebook's f8 developers conference in San Francisco, California April 30, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Mark Zuckerberg had an excellent piece of advice for a grandmother who joked about persuading her granddaughter to date a "nerd" at school.

In case you missed it, the Facebook CEO announced on Sunday that he's building a robot butler.

Every year, he sets himself a challenge to help improve his life. In the past, he has learnt Mandarin, and read two books a month. In 2016, he says he will "build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man."

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In the comments below his Facebook post, messages and questions poured in from Facebook users.

One user - a grandmother - posted the comment: "I keep telling my grand daughters to Date the nerd in school, he may turn out to be a Mark Zuckerberg!"

But Zuckerberg recommended that they do one better: "Encourage them to *be* the nerd in their school so they can be the next successful inventor!"