Why are the facebook privacy settings useless?

Seriously why does it appear mark zuckerberg have no respect for facebook users privacy i mean taking the option away to choose weather or not you want your friends seeing your relationship status to automaticly posting every action to everyones news feeds giving you no freedom to choose what gets posted? i find it stupid u can hide your wall your relationship from your info but it still appears on news feeds when you connect your relationship or post,tag and the rest its just pointless and i and others lose our privacy