Do you include a personal message when you send a friend request on Facebook? And, is it just me, or this feature is sort of broken?

First of all I want to ask if you also have this experience… When I add people, I usually write a text in addition to the basic friend request… but strangely enough, I never get that text when people add me… and I don’t believe nobody writes when they friend request me. Actually I remember in the past the message was displayed next to the friend request when you could accept or ignore… so, from your experience, is this broken these days? Has Facebook been letting friend request messages go inside a black hole?

Also, I am setting this question to the “social section”, so you can also chime in if you want to give your opinion on these messages… me personally I am sorry that the functionality seems to be broken, because I like the added uniqueness that one can add with a simple message, instead of a bland friend request.