another interesting, and in my case very common, experience when you introduce friends to foreign concepts and ideas like btc or steemit is 'what the fuck stare', or simply subject-change-or-ignore. Seems what you say sound so strange that they don't know how to categorize it in their knowledge database so they nod their head and are very eager to change the subject. Every time I see my father I try to explain cryptocurrencies to him. Oh, it's so much fun :D :D