When a person is idling on their phone, checking email every few minutes, or even seconds; scrolling aimlessly on social media; checking news websites but only because they are too tired to do anything else - including removing their phone from their hand.

Being ‘on the intercrap’ is often something people do to manage the in-between times - for example when on the toilet, or between dinner and getting ready for bed, waiting in a queue, or even walking down the street.

Being ‘on the intercrap’ can be a way of decompressing from the day.

Being ‘on the intercrap’ can also be a way of looking, or hoping, for intimacy whilst in otherwise alienating surroundings.