The only way you're going to be shamed is if you really didn't make them in private conversation. Making them as you sit around a bunch of people in the middle

The only way you're going to be shamed is if you really didn't make them in private conversation. Making them as you sit around a bunch of people in the middle of a conference, or in the middle of your office where everyone can hear you, or on your public twitter account is not a private conversation. Just because you directed it to someone does not make it private.