I'm pretty sure this news story won't become too big since it's so blatently false. What could be a big news story is this same thing but applied to XBOX Live, with the voice chat features in multiplayer games. This holds far more pottential danger than Pictochat could ever hold. There are more chances the person who sent those rude messages to the 11 year old girl was her father. But you'd never hear that on the news report.

Why they reported this is beyond me.

any publicity is....

This just in: "The act of living compromises your safety! How can you combat this situation? We'll tell you after this commercial break."

Hell I can expose any facet of existence for being detrimental to your well-being:

"Parents, don't let your children breathe any more than they have to! They might inhale a house fly and choke to death, promoting necrophelia."

Why??

Because America is a nation of panic merchants. Infact I'd guess its their national sport too. This kind of paedo panic is the latest event (no offence to .

I also think this is also to do with how the media still see Nintendo as kids only fodder and not the domain of games for everyone.

Don't believe the hype.

More stupidity from our stateside friends.