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Livejournal had this long before G+ or Facebook existed, and people sure did regularly lock their posts to one group of friends or another.

The choice of how to restrict your audience was placed below the 'new post' entry box, and was something you'd usually think about after writing your post. Which was more likely to be a multi-paragraph thing than the short fragments we're so used to tossing off on all the commercial social networks now.