In case someone else wanted to hide the like counter that is displayed on the Facebook social button I thought I'd post it here. This is what worked for me. Best if applied using override under your template. Feel free to post any issues you think I might have or that you ran into while trying/deploying it.
Issue:
I wanted ot remove the Facebook Like Hit Counter from the blog posts.
Solution:
Change the Facebook iframe source URL construct
1. Edit /home/plugin/public_html/components/com_easyblog/classes/facebook.php
2. Line 214 -> layout: "'.$layout.'", CHANGE TO layout: "'.button.'",
Why It Works:
Source URL sent to Facebook uses the button_count value to assign the Facebook Like button with a counter. Removing the _count tells Facebook that you don't want a counter with the button.
Request:
Add this option to backend admin interface in com_easyblog Social Integrations settings view.
Original:

$html .= EasyBlogHelper::addScriptDeclarationBookmarklet('$("#' . $placeholder . '").bookmarklet("facebookLike", {

			url: "'.$url.'",

			send: "'.$send.'",

			layout: "'.$layout.'",

			verb: "'.$verb.'",

			locale: "'.$locale.'",

			faces: "'.$faces.'",

			theme: "'.$theme.'",

			height: "'.$height.'",

			width: "'.$width.'"

		});');

Modified:

$html .= EasyBlogHelper::addScriptDeclarationBookmarklet('$("#' . $placeholder . '").bookmarklet("facebookLike", {

			url: "'.$url.'",

			send: "'.$send.'",

			layout: "'.button.'",

			verb: "'.$verb.'",

			locale: "'.$locale.'",

			faces: "'.$faces.'",

			theme: "'.$theme.'",

			height: "'.$height.'",

			width: "'.$width.'"

		});');