Why are you surprised?
No surprise. Most of my co-workers knew nothing about this stuff until I started telling them about it, but that's always the case. I'll read something on FR, tell friends and co-workers about it and two or three days later they'll come back to tell me they finally saw it on the news.
I've become the news source for most of the people I associate with. Last week, a friend told me she was going to join FR and get on eyespy's ping list just to keep up with the document release.