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RE: Does Facebook actually own the rights for my pictures
The problem is that if facebook didn't have the right to use your pictures then they couldn't display them, technically speaking. As far as "transferable", I'm not sure what the reason is though license to do that may be needed if Facebook changed ownership or for pictures to be shared between Instagram and Facebook for instance. In other words, I don't think that Facebook plans on selling your pictures but they are just covering their ass, legally speaking.
Yeah, I see the legal reasoning to cover their asses. Yet, at the same time, I understand that power changes people and the law is the law. So, the next day when they want to use this agreement 1% differently from the original tactic, they totally can. Than 1% more different, again and again, and eventually what we never expected to happen will happen. Jone's act makes sense and it was meant to protect the integrity of the states. But from the Puerto Rican perspective it damages the economy pretty badly. Laws are always tricky 😆
I guess I just don't use facebook in a way that it concerns me all that much. I do share family photos and stuff like that occasionally but not the sort of stuff that I would sell commercially or expect facebook to be able to sell commercially at any great profit. Since the internet began I've always been aware that someone else is ultimately going to have control over what you put on their servers (legally or not) and I act accordingly.
I think any images you post on facebook or even the such you write on your wall they own it as you agreed to it when you made your facebook account.