For our use, we did not need any of the social links, but needed an email link. The code and style was pretty well described, so it was a simple task to repurpose the Facebook link.
I was able to reorder members by editing the publish date on the member record. By default, older published members are displayed on the bottom and newer published members are displayed on the top (or upper left). Changing the original publish date/time will change where a member is sorted in the display. It’s clunky, but workable.