Anything submitted to Facebook is the property of Facebook. Users have no business telling Facebook to destroy Facebook property.
This link addresses your concerns by clarifying a prior form of the above mentioned policy: http://legalteamusa.net/tacticalip/2013/02/11/does-facebook-...
I suspect the Facebook IP Policy is a standard blanket of legal compliance if the following is that policy: https://www.facebook.com/help/intellectual_property
In short Facebook can do anything they want with the IP content you provide to them. It also identifies, by example, IP content as media you provide to them. For that material the policy is pretty clear, but what about other material? What about textual content that is typed into Facebook and identified relationships? It seems this information is covered by the same policies and is IP subject to Facebook's use.
My understanding of Facebook policy is also likely dated as their terms change periodically. The current policy is dated at 30 January 2015.
I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion.
Are we to accept that this is how it works simply because Facebook says this is how it works?
Or put another way, the law should be (but often isn't) informed by human rights--human rights aren't informed by the law.
Users didn't sign or agree to anything just because they checked a checkbox next to a link to an ever-changing jumble of legalese to get past a screen. This isn't agreement, it's manufactured consent.
What is the difference? I am thinking if a person really actually cared they would have read the legal agreement before checking the checkbox in question and possibly consulted an attorney of their own. I am thinking most users absolutely do not care and agree out-right and immediately to all claims presented by Facebook. How is that not still agreement?
It's unrealistic to expect that users will read AND understand the TOS of every website AND all of the changes to the TOS that occur over time.