Shared Photo Stream Option Missing

I just downloaded iOS6 on my iPhone 4 (not 4S). In settings->photos & camera THERE IS NO OPTION FOR ENABLING SHARED PHOTO STREAMS. There is only the standard option (which is "ON") for enabling "My Photo Stream".
Is this feature limited to the 4S?
Is this feature limited by location? I AM LOCATED IN CHINA - China Unicom is my service provider (official provider and reseller of the iPhone here).
Thanks,
Summer

So, I got it working, but I'm not 100% sure what resolved the problem. They key is that apparently there are updated "iCloud terms of service", and you need to read and accept those before this feature will "appear". For some reason during the install it didn't ask me to review and accept updated iCloud terms of service.
But how to get the iCloud terms of service to show up? I have no idea. I can say I turned photo stream (the basic service) on / off a couple of times, and I turned my network connection on / off a couple of times. I was just fiddling around, basically, and suddenly I saw a message saying "iCloud terms of service have changed", and then it displayed a new terms of service, and after I accepted them the option for shared photo streams appeared.
The exact same thing happened on my iPad (3rd gen), which I just updated today as well. Weird.
Just for the record, I am now left with A DIFFERENT problem - iMessage and FaceTime will not activate. But that's a topic for another thread, I think.

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Upgrade your OS - shared PhotoStream requires OS X version 10.8.2 or later and iPhoto '11 version 9.4 or newer and IOS 6.0 or later
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I just figured the solution out! It worked for me..
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So delete the icloud from your iDevice and, add it again.
Hope it work 4 u..

I recently changed my apple id after closing an old yahoo email account. Now all of my shared photo streams are missing. Is there a way to get them back? One in particular was all photos of my first baby, my 8 month old daughter :(

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I want to share photos with non-Apple users. I know how to do this - through electing the 'public website' option 'so anyone can view them' when creating the shared photo stream.
My question focuses on how secure is this public website? Does it really mean "anyone" in the public could technically view them whether or not I added them to the subscriber list? Is it possible to require a password for my subscribers to view the website?
I'd be sharing family photos of my new baby boy and I'm not wild about the idea that any "Joe Schmoe" out there could potentially view them if they somehow found or got access to the link to the shared photo stream.
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You are not mentioning your Mac OS X Version:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4436
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Quick query though:
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