Get lost, brands! Only 6 percent of young people want to be Facebook friends with you

And half of the 12- to 17-year-olds online don’t think your brand should be on Facebook AT ALL.

That’s according to a new Forrester survey saying just 6 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds who use the Web want to interact with your brand on Facebook. Here’s the sting: Half of this demographic uses Facebook.

But it gets worse. “Almost half of 12- to 17-year-olds don’t think brands should have a presence using social media tools at all,” according to Forrester consumer insights analyst Jacqueline Anderson, the author of the report.

Meanwhile, just 12 percent of 18- to 24-year-old Web users want to be friends with your brand, according to Adweek.

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