Off to find a wall to bang my head against....
So now every time I see a post, it's plastered with 'Like' - both icons and words? I do not like this 'like' business at all. I'm not asking for a 'dislike' button though. Actually, could we have a preferences flag so that folks who don't like the 'Like' function can make it invisible, so we don't have to see it on every post?
For those who don't like the like buttons, I've found it is possible to block them all using the "block element" function in the Adblock Plus extension.