It's a toggle button, click "Following" again, it should change back to "Follow" (because you now have "unfollowed" the space).
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
While checking new SCN, unknowingly I have followed 6 places .
tried to unfollow few of them.
even though I clicked on " following" again to unfollow, it does nt changing to unfollow.
any one facing the same problem? please share.
Suresh were you logged in when you pressed the "following" button in each space? Could you please try again?
I just tested and it worked for me.
Gali
Is there a security setting for users? I cannot unfollow either. The button simply does nothing. Also the stop tracking button does not seem to work. I also receive emails for posts to these places without selecting receive emails.
It feels a bit like "Hotel California" you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave 
Hi Kevin,
you are absoutely right.
I am facing the same issue.
Hi,
thank you for your reply.
I have tested it again. I am logged in.
tried to click on "following" to change the status. but it does nt change .
Suresh thanks for retesting.
Kevin - lol - love your example!
A ticket has been logged on this matter SCNSBS-1509
Gail and Thomas: I have the same problem. After accidentally clicking follow, fumbling around the new website, I cannot avoid being emailed about other peoples postings. I am using Firefox 11; are there any browser incompatibilities? There's no un-follow button for me either!
I'd like to resolve this ASAP to avoid being swamped with email for every update in every SDN forum.
Thanks,
Jon
Hi,
Same issue, can't able to unfollow, any update on the same when it will be fix?
Thanks
Hrishi
Hi Gali,
even I'm facing the same issue due to this my mail box is getting full with these alerts. Please try to provide a solution.
Thanks,
Rama
Gali
Has this been addressed ? As already stated by others, my mail box is also dumped with lot of SCN mails and I want to stop this. I did tried clicking "Following" button but to no success.
G. Lakshmipathi
Message was edited by: Lakshmipathi Ganesan
Hi Lakshmipathi,
I suppose you should use Stop email notifications in the corresponding space. 'Following' is not meant for receiving mails. If you click on Stop email notifications , then your problem should get resolved.
Regards,
Leon
you should use Stop email notifications
I am unable to find in this screen.
I could see only "Receive email notification". 
G. Lakshmipathi
That means, you don't get email notifications from this space. You should probably check the space from which you receive email notifications. If you see Receive email notification, that means you are not subscribing to that space.
Regards,
Leon
If you see the screen shot, on the right side, it is showing "Following" and I am getting mails from this forum in bulk.
G. Lakshmipathi
Also wanted to suggest Chip's great post http://scn.sap.com/community/about/blog/2012/03/16/going-crazy-with-scn-alerts
Hi Suresh,
we had an issue with our CDN blocking certain requests. The issue should be fixed now, so please try again.
Best,
Oliver
