One might ask themselves, what could possibly be appealing about a glass bedroom?The light?
The darkness?
The intrigue?
Simply: It looks cool?
Honestly..there isn't an overwhelming appeal that's jolting architects out there to go and design giant glass bedrooms with no option of utter privacy. This is because most of us would prefer a room with spacious windows that could be closed and shut off from those peeping toms whenever we felt necessary. This desire, or imperative choice, to mandate our version of what the world can see of our personal space, is deeply embedded in our human nature. Physically speaking, our control over this aspect is absolutely mandatory. If this is so, then how do we explain the augmenting number of us that continue to form digitalized glass bedrooms?
Within "bedrooms" conversations take place with varying awareness of who the audience is, or could be. They are separate spaces, yet they are not entirely closed off. This can easily blur the line between what is private and what is public space. When we decide to make the step of digitalizing our bedrooms by making social networking accounts and profiles with our pictures and interests plastered on them, we're also inviting strangers into our private space. Sometimes this is intentional, sometimes it's not. Either way, most of the time, we are offering more information to more people then we initially intended. When we craft our various pages, we don't know who the exact audience will be, but we know we'll have one. We're allowing some sort of "privatelic" to exist as a medium between the two poles. This digitalization of personal knowledge is forever changing the fundamental rules of what parts of our personal lives should stay private, and what can be cast into the mix as public knowledge. With these digitalized glass bedrooms a change of etiquette, social interaction, and sense of community can be seen dancing on the horizon, and these changes are ready to penetrate each and every glass fortress. So glass bedrooms beware!
