But there's a flipside to it too - often, celebs find themselves being subjected to verbal abuse.
Recently, Shah Rukh Khan gave a piece of his mind when he found himself in a similar situation (Shah Rukh lashes out against abusive social media users, October 5).
And now it's Farhan Akhtar's turn.
When the actor recently posted on Facebook that his upcoming movie Rock On!! 2 has gone on floors, he was flooded with responses from his fans.
However, one of the users brought up the topic of the Dadri mob lynching case and even addressed him as 'Pakistani Akhtar'.
Farhan had a fitting reply to this:
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