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Tbh, social listening is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot, and most of the time what people mean is monitoring. Checking if someone mentioned your brand. Seeing if there is a complaint to respond to. That is not social listening. Or at least, it is not what social listening has become in 2026. The discipline has evolved into something genuinely different, and the brands treating it as a reactive monitoring task are missing the majority of its value. Let me tel