@M4th- Yep. If you select yourself on the 3DS FL, you can write a very short message. If two friends are on at the same time in their FL they can easily send messages to each other. I've done it loads of times when a 3DS only friend was banned. It's not a perfect system, but it gets the job done. Well, apparently Nintendo saw too many kids send bad messages to each other. So they figured the...