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by disgruntledphd2 561 days ago
She mentioned it in a performance session that was recorded before I joined FB (I joined in 2013, I believe the talk was from 2011).

I completely agreed with her, but after watching the talk came to the conclusion that if she couldn't change it, then I certainly wouldn't.

More generally, younger people tend to be OK with everyone knowing everything, while as you get older you want to share with smaller circles to avoid conflict. Sheryl was quite a bit older than Mark and Chris at the time, which may have been the difference.