10.9.2 stuck FaceTime icons in vcards - can someone help get rid of them

Had to update due to SSL bug.  Apple snuck in a change to Contacts: after long chat with support today, a higher up confirmed it's a feature introduced by the upgrade, to include icons for FaceTime, video and audio chats right smack among my contact's information.  No way to remove it in the template, I'm told it's there on the basis that the computer doesn't know which of my contacts is set up for chats so it's there just in case. 
I don't want my vcards cluttered up with stuff I don't use.  It slows down data entry.  I have facetime and imessages turned off and never set them up. The offending icons are now on all my vcards, even old ones.
Anyone have a fix? 
Thanks!
Screenshot:

I concur with the original post. The logos should move or be gone. My work flow is severely disturbed by the icons. Its really upsetting my workflow, because they are visually in the way, begging to be clicked. Exactly as Apple wanted, I assume. But my 1000+ contacts are almost all business contacts.
Accidentally hitting the FaceTime button of a business contact when I only wanted to copy or copy and paste is worrisome. I'll have to be "very careful" 50 times a day not to click the icons. And I'm not careful, I'm quick.
I have tried many contact data bases over the years — and more recently several well-known cloud contacts systems — and have decided to use the simple Apple Contacts.
Here's why; while it's missing many auto features, I have found that simple is best. Data is backed up on Apple cloud. My iPhone, iPad and Air are all in sync, always, without any thinking.
I have set up groups in contacts, which acts like tags, in that someone can belong to multiple groups. So I have groups by type of industry or by importance and also groups by where they are along the sales channel. There's a big of manual labor to click people in and out of sales channel groups, but its very quick and I like the control. I also have created team groups who I can email all at once. Also, often forget a name, but I can visually search for them by group to find them. The integration with Mac Mail makes this fool proof. The contact notes is perfect, because entering into a note on a contact does not require the "edit" button. And with shift, command, } the current date is added then I add a comment.
Since groups can not be sub grouped — a failing of Mac contacts design — I use three letter codes in all saps for each group type. So at least they line up in a logical order. For sales channel groups I use numbers, such as "2 — Proposal – Needs" so sales is on top. And alphabetically categorized by sub groups.

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