"internet addict" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is excessively addicted to the internet or to an activity on the internet, such as online gaming. For example, "My brother is an internet addict; he spends hours playing video games online every day."
Conservative dailies began calling him a quack, an unemployed Internet addict, even a "cult leader".
Two weeks ago, I met a professed Internet addict, a 20-year-old college student in New York named Gabriela.
Enough of this euphoria, like with gambling or drinking or drugs, brings an Internet addict back to the glowing screen for more.
A defense psychiatrist's report described Mr. Gonzalez as a socially awkward Internet addict with an "idiot savantlike genius for computers and information technology".
Her first exercise in fiction feels more rooted in fact than imagination: the protagonist is, you guessed it, a thirtysomething Paris-based single mother and internet addict.
(He knows that Seneca instructed the Emperor Nero, but sticks in a footnote to insist that the bad, fiddling-while-Rome-burned Nero asserted himself only after he fired the philosopher and started to act like an Internet addict).
Ironically enough, she created a website that she hoped problem users would find, wherein she wrote about Internet Addicts Anonymous, Internet addiction and her own story.
This study aimed to evaluate the roles of pathological disorders in Internet addiction disorder and identify the pathological problems in IAD, as well as explore the mental status of Internet addicts prior to addiction, including the pathological traits that may trigger Internet addiction disorder.
Patients with internet addiction and depression revealed highest scores in neuroticism, with significant differences also between internet addicts with and without depression.
"I have seen people who stopped attending university lectures, failed their degrees or their marriages broke down" because of Internet gaming addiction, Dr. Henriette Bowden Jones, who runs a British clinic for Internet addicts, told The Independent.
On the basis of recently proposed theoretical models of addiction, we predicted a reduction of thickness in the OFC of internet addicted individuals.
