They were shocked because they thought that you can only buy 1 btc, 2btc, 3btc and not just fractions of it. But making people shocked about a subject makes them interested about it. I think that it's a good thing that you're asking about bitcoins to people. The person you talked would assume that he/she is already late on the "trend" and bitcoin is a new thing. He/she will feel like he/she has to do something about it and thus conduct research about bitcoin. I would suggest that you go to a university and ask people about it. It's more likely that you found a guy that knows bitcoin there since college students tend to look for work online.

In my country the popularity of bitcoin is very low and the people dont even get proper internet nowadays. People are below poverty line and are least bothered about some cyber currency. Hence the acceptance is low here in my city but some other cities have been using it recently. In any case bitcoin is growing and more people will gradually accept it alongside its transactions but it will take time.

Yes this is the fact and I would say we are in adoption stage and we have yet to reach big milestone. I have almost 800+ friends on facebook and I can say roughly 30 of them have heard about bitcoin. We must contribute in the growth of bitcoin by building awareness on our own level by telling friends and family about bitcoin and crypto currency technology and should not focus only on acquiring bitcoins.

Hey a fellow Canadian! Did you get the freaking 10 inches of snow too? Lol.

Anyways, I talk to lots of people about bitcoin. My family all knows about it and has since I got involved with bitcoin but not a single one uses it. None of th understand anything about it. It's kind of ridiculous in my mind because I have lots of males in my family and it's mostly males that are interested in bitcoins! I think they just don't see the need or the point yet so they'll adopt later when they have a reason to.

Maybe I'll give a paper wallet with 0.01BTC on it for Christmas or something. I'm assuming if they own some bitcoins that should help them want to use it. $10 is $10 lol. If I got $10 in something strange currency I don't know about I'd try to figure out how I can use it.

I think that bitcoin is not widely known, and even less understood.
I can count about three people I know who are aware what you can ackieve with bitcoins, bot not more.
In my oppinion the knowledge about bitcoin occurs concentrated in some places, like here in the forum or on bitcoin related meetings.
That's why sometimes it seems bitcoin is widely known.
But if you look at the global population I'm relatively sure that only 0.1% of the people know more about bitcoin than just it's name.

Nope, only a small percentage of population in this world knows about bitcoin and mostly those people who are using online transaction. If you will try to analylze, the population of the poor in our world is very hug, so I presume this people have no idea about bitcoin as they are more focus on their needs.

This just shows us that there's not enough information about bitcoin being circulated around. The problem here is there's no central agency who can do the advertising and PR works for bitcoin. Only the big exchanges can afford to make an ad featuring bitcoin and it is not being seen by the masses. The gamblers, especially the ones who are online are the ones who know much about bitcoin. I got to know more about a bitcoin from a friend ho is into gambling and I have since tried to bring to the awareness of my friends but only a few have shown real interest in finding out more.

Few of the people that really search the internet every day knows about bitcoin and fewer are the ones that actually use it , because they either think of it as a useless thing just like any other thing on the internet or they find it complicating just like i did at first but then i kept searching and found it really a good thing , but also the lack of support for the bitcoin by the community made it even harder to come across it  but i think that in the near future everyone will know about it

I agree that we lack the support. We don't promote bitcoin on TV, on Facebook, or any other social media site. There's a lot of rich people because of bitcoin but here we don't see that much advertisements encouraging people to find out what is bitcoin.

As a bitcoin user, it should only be normal to hype bitcoin up by showing to the public that you support it but at the same time, it's kind of awkward to approach a stranger and encourage them to start studying bitcoins. The only bitcoin advertisements going on are the advertisements of bitcoin-related companies which aren't focused on supporting bitcoins but their company itself.

Yes maybe everyone heard about bitcoin. But the thing is, the only heard about it, but theres a big possibility that they just will neglect it. Not all people knows the use of bitcoin, not all people knows the benefits can get by the users and the important of it. But learning and using bitcoin is a life long learning, no one will forget even your were become old.