As of the second quarter of 2016, Facebook had 1.71 billion monthly active users, this is to mean, people who have logged in to the social media platform in the last 30 days.
It is hard to tell what percentage active Kenyan users account for in that number, but what is indisputable is that they are probably several million users.
But, who exactly is this billionaire founder of the giant site that continues to attract new users every passing year?
Mark Zuckerberg is an American programmer, an Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist.
He is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of social networking website Facebook.
He was born on May 14, 1984 and lives in Palo Alto, California, USA.
The social media entrepreneur is the son of a dentist father Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist mother Karen Kempner.
Zuckerberg has three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle.
Although a sworn atheist, Zuckerberg has a firm belief in karma.
The young billionaire developed his interest in web technology when he started using computers and writing software in middle school where his father taught him basic Programming in the 1990s.
His net worth as at August 2016 averaged US$53.7 billion (Sh5.4 trillion) and growing.
Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan with whom he has one child, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg.
They met at a fraternity party during his schooling at Harvard. They began dating in 2003.
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004 together with four of his college mates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Together, they introduced Facebook to other campuses beginning with Columbia, New York University, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, Brown, and Yale.
In 2012, Zuckerberg was involved in various legal disputes that were initiated by others in the group, who claimed a share of the company based on their involvement in the development phase of Facebook.
On philanthropy, Zuckerberg has donated billions of dollars to hundreds of charity organizations around the world.
In 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife announced that they would give majority of their wealth over the course of their lives to "advancing human potential and promoting equality".
Three years later on December 1, 2015, they announced that they would give 99 per cent of their Facebook shares - worth about 45 trillion shillings at the time- to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
In October 2014, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated Sh2.5 billion to combat the Ebola virus in West Africa.
On July 2nd 2016, Israeli cabinet minister Gilad Erdan accused Zuckerberg of having some responsibility for the deadly attacks by Palestinians against Israelis.
According to Erdan, the social network has not done enough to ban posts to its platform that incite violence against Israelis.
Zuckerberg’s life during the founding years of Facebook, The Social Network, was released on October 1, 2010.
The 32-year-old billionaire’s on Thursday is the second of its kind to Africa, coming hot on the heels of a similar one in Nigeria on Tuesday.
A one small thing, he is always spotted wearing grey t-shirts...he has a couple of them.