3DS Miiverse Won’t Support Message Exchange Between Friends Or Friend Requests

[Mnementh]

Wyrdness said:

Mnementh said:

What was the incident, I'm interested.

Won't go into too much detail, basically in Japan predators were grooming underage girls and exchanging pictures of them through Swap Note with in their little ring sometimes they'd have the girls themselves send them a picture to pass around, it's the driving force that lead to Swap Note being terminated.

Doesn't that work with e-mail too? I don't understand what makes Swapnote special in this and why this is a reason to sutdown the service? Is it easier to reach the girls this way? It's hard to think so, as they have to exchange friend-codes.