Icloud is not showing up in system preferences on my imac

I am working on OSX 10.68 and I have just purchased icloud. For some reason, it isn't showing up in my system preferences. Anyone?

iCloud is not supported using 10.6.8, you must upgrade your version of OSX to (minimum of 10.7.2), upgrading to the current version (if your Mac will support it) is preferable (10.8.3)
iCloud is a free service, how did you manage to pay for it?

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