Initially the sociopath charm doesn’t take you away from your friends, and in saying that the sociopath will look to be introduced to all your friends. This introduction is for the sole benefit of the sociopath and is used to gauge your friends. A sociopath will diagnose your friends noting the threats and potential new victims, and then the sociopath charm kicks in. You don’t notice it until later, but here’s a warning sign, when they are introduced to your friends the sociopath will be low key or keep a low profile, not the talker but the listener, and as time goes on the sociopath will be doing the talking using that sociopath charm and your friends become the listeners (these friends are the sociopath’s potential new victims), or the opposite occurs the sociopath will exclude and remove your those friends or at the very least keep out of any conversations with those friends, this is because they see those friends of yours as threats to the sociopath’s grander scheme of things and they will attempt to excluded those friends from your social group.