While on one hand I agree that the little symbols do add up, and thus I'm glad they changed the icon, there was something about the article that rang false to me. It felt very much like Facebook was patting itself on the back, talking about how they encourage the boldness of the designer who did what she did, how they're a diverse company, etc. It's a very superficial change and I sort of feel like they should save the celebrations for when they see results of such diversity - say, in the numbers and demographics of their own company.

Also, maybe I've been a little too immersed in other forums, but the second I saw that the female silhouette was now in front of the male silhouette, all I could imagine was a potential outcry that the evil "feminist agenda" was succeeding in putting women above men, or something like that. I hope that's not the case, but I kind of wish they'd sacrificed a little bit of the design aesthetic to just make the two silhouettes properly equal. That might be laziness talking on my part though.