Where should the responsibility lie? With Facebook or with the users?

There is a Q and A with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and president of Facebook. I found a couple of things interesting in his answers to some questions found here:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/live-blogging-facebooks-privacy-announcement/

Question: Are these latest changes all about advertising?

Zuckerberg's answer regarding the future of Facebook and the main force pushing it for the team now, is it a quest for the future of people? Or is it a quest to get as rich as possible at the expense of those people? All of the crazy privacy issues recently really could make a person wonder...

Question: Do you think the majority of the users on the site actually understand that when you choose to share with “Everyone,” that means the entire Internet?

Zuckerberg basically says that the first time one signs up for an account on Facebook, it notifies you that by default information is shared with "everyone." To remember the first time one signed up for a Facebook account for most, is probably difficult, because most people have been involved with Facebook for a very long time now. If what Zuckerberg says is true, (and why wouldn't it be?) then the responsibility seems to lie with the user for privacy settings.

There's a blog labeled "Defaults" where he was asked why the default privacy settings were not set at the highest level and he answered that it was set at the lowest so people could find each other, as that was the point of the site. He said that it was "really important to help people share simply by default, and we've made it really easy to change that now."

In the "Trust Issues" section he basically says that he's not worried about people leaving. He said that people have been threatening to leave ever since the rumors started about you having to pay to use Facebook, but no one has ever done anything about it.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/is-there-life-after-facebook/

This article just talks about how people are tired of the way the privacy is and they want to leave. But they also point out that it is hard to quit Facebook because it really is a wonderful way to stay connected with people that you're not physically close to.

Facebook makes it really easy to stay connected with others, like sharing photos easily with friends and family. It's much easier to upload an album on Facebook so that friends and family can see, rather than sending out emails to multiple people. Most people can't just simply quit Facebook without leaving all the friends and family behind that are connected over the network.

Until there is a viable alternative, people are just going to have to deal with all the privacy issues and do their best to stay on top of them. And Zuckerberg knows this, which isn't going to make him really care about doing much about all the privacy issues. So this indeed does lead to the question, is there life after Facebook? Perhaps too many users are too stuck on Facebook to find out...