Citations:microboredom

Noun: "momentary or short-lived boredom"

 * 1977 — Victor A. Altshul, "The So-Called Boring Patient", American Journal of Psychotherapy, 31(4), 533-545:
 * Clearly, the concept of signal boredom would correspond to what I earlier termed "microboredom."
 * 2001 — D. C. Denison, "And The Next Big Thing Is…", Boston Globe, 8 October 2001:
 * Altman, who is a vice president and director of business development for the personal communication sector at Motorola, believes that a host of microboredom busters are on the horizon because many of the next-generation cellphones are designed to be platforms for a new variant of the popular Java programming language.
 * 2005 — Jack Schofield, "One size fits all networks", The Guardian, 30 June 2005:
 * Orange spokesman Matt Sears says you can use MobiTV to watch "regular telly in moments of microboredom".
 * 2008 — Thor Christensen, "Are cell phones ruining the concert experience?", The Dallas Morning News, 11 May 2008:
 * At concerts, microboredom usually means fans snapping dozens of photos of the band, the crowd and the stage lights.
 * 2010 — Rob Walker, "The Back Story", The New York Times, 3 September 2010:
 * Goldstein theorizes that the motive was the same "microboredom" that inclines users of mobile check-in apps to announce that they've arrived at Chili’s