...will you tell me the time? How much longer will it be till I am able to unsubscribe to websites on my Google Reader? Your video about how to set up Google Reader is clear and easy to follow, but when I try to unsubscribe to a site, I cannot succeed. I unsubscribe to several blogs almost daily, and the sites disappear until I go offline, but when I go online again, like ghosts from the past, they are back. These are sites which are no longer active and blogs which have new names or new website addresses. You see, I have no further use for them, and I want them gone when I unsubscribe. Please!!!
UPDATE: I seem to have successfully unsubscribed to the unwanted blogs on my reader for now. My virtual friend, Renz, suggested that I check to see which blogs I was following on Blogger. I tried to delete the blogs I wanted to be rid of there, but I could find no way, but there was a function which allowed me to hide them from my list. Once I'd hidden all the blogs I wanted gone, I went back to Google Reader, clicked on 'Manage subscriptions', checked the box for all the blogs I wanted off my list, clicked 'unsubscribe' at the top of the page, and they were gone. I'm not an optimistic person, so I can't quite believe the unwanted subscriptions are gone forever, but last night and today, they are not there. Thank you, Renz.
This process may not work for everyone, but I hope it helps a few of you out there.
UPDATE 2: Well, that didn't take long. The unwanted blogs are back in my Google Reader. They say nothing is forever, but once in my Google Reader, always in my Google Reader. There you have it.
UPDATE 3: Finally, finally the unsubscribed blogs are out of my Google Reader. The difficulty arose from fact that at the same time I was subscribing to the feed of blogs in Google Reader, I began following certain blogs on Blogger. When I unsubscribed from the sites on Google Reader, I was still following them on Blogger. The fix included not only the 'unsubscribe' function on Google Reader but also the 'stop following' function on Blogger. I'll quote my friend Renz's words on the instructions for how to stop following a site on Blogger.
OK, on Blogger Dashboard there's this box called "Reader" - it lists the blogs you are following and on the right shows you current posts. At the bottom of the box is the prompt to "manage" - and click on that. The pop up lists the blogs you are following - to the right of each one is "settings" - when you click on that you get an individual pop up for that blog and in it you find "stop following" - click on that and confirm witht he prompt. You should be done following then.
Then, I went back to Google Reader and unsubscribed to the sites once again. Voila! The deed was done!
I realize that not everyone will be helped by these instructions, but I hope a few people will. In the end, the difficulty was not with Google Reader but with the double subscriptions. I thank Renz for his patience with me and his suggestions to try this and try that before arriving finally at my goal of unsubscribing to the websites.
