How wired are you?

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released on Sunday a study…of people’s “evolving relationships to cyberspace.”

Pew found in a survey that 73 percent of U.S. adults own a cell phone, 68 percent have a desktop computer, 30 percent possess a laptop, and 73 percent connect to the Internet, but that very few use them to express themselves publicly via Web 2.0 applications.

The study defines Web 2.0 users as people who take advantage of technology “to express themselves online and participate in the commons of cyberspace,” including maintaining a personal Web site, blogging, vlogging, remixing media or sharing new-media creations.

Only 8 percent of U.S. adults are “deep users” of Web 2.0 features, the study found, though many American adults do own the gadgets that enable those functions and use the devices to express themselves privately.

For example, 37 percent regularly use instant messaging, and 41 percent have sent a text message from a cell phone. More than a fourth of U.S. adults have downloaded music files, and 19 percent have shared photos, stories, artwork or videos.

According to Pew, there are currently eight major connection points: desktops, laptops, digital cameras, video cameras, Webcams, media players, cell phones and smart phones.

CNET News.com

Here’s the report from Pew: A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.

And here’s where you can take the brief Technology Typology Test.

And the comments link below is where you can “express [yourself] online and participate in the commons of cyberspace.”