diff --git a/Rfacebook/R/getCommentReplies.R b/Rfacebook/R/getCommentReplies.R
index b930140..25c4256 100644
--- a/Rfacebook/R/getCommentReplies.R
+++ b/Rfacebook/R/getCommentReplies.R
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ getCommentReplies <- function(comment_id, token, n=500, replies=TRUE, likes=FALS
                      n.replies=n){
   
   url <- paste0("https://graph.facebook.com/", comment_id,
-                "?fields=from,message,created_time,like_count,comment_count") #return initial comments
+                "?fields=from,message,created_time") #return initial comments
   
   if (replies==TRUE){
     url <- paste0(url, ",comments.summary(true).",
diff --git a/Rfacebook/R/utils.R b/Rfacebook/R/utils.R
index 62ad8b6..b7ca4c2 100644
--- a/Rfacebook/R/utils.R
+++ b/Rfacebook/R/utils.R
@@ -242,8 +242,6 @@ replyDataToDF <- function(json){
     from_name = json$from$name,
     message = ifelse(!is.null(json$message),json$message, NA),
     created_time = json$created_time,
-    likes_count = json$like_count,
-	comments_count = json$comment_count,
     id = json$id,
 	stringsAsFactors=F)
   return(df)