I commented out the lines that refer to the short codes in the loader.php and reloaded. The plug in then failed at:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /home/amg0/public_html/givethehalo/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-social/activity-sharing.php on line 7
where another set of short codes are in an array. I don’t recall seeing shortcodes used this way.
Where does the plugin get the data?